She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

There is only one world the world pressing against you this minute.

When you talk of revolution ... you never talk of the day after.

Fear is the deep motive of abstract art - fear of a repellent civilization which is dominated by the power of things. ... who can be surprised if, more sensitive than the others, the artist is terrified by the power things have acquired over us?

All writers who can claim to be called 'living' must be political in a sense. They must have what the Quakers call a concern to understand what is happening in the world, and must engage themselves, in their writing, to promote no comfortable lies, of the sort which people will pay well to be told rather than the truth.

There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.

There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.